It all started when...
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MARC WELTER AND HIS “JOINT BUNCH”
Marc was born on 5th October 1967 into a family of musicians (his father was a professional viola player in the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg (OPL) and choir conductor, his mother a life-long member of a choir) and started learning to play the piano at the age of 3. He stopped studying music at the age of 15, became a DJ and began touring around Luxembourg for a few years with “The Party Team”…
It was during this time that he began composing his own songs and, at the age of 17-18 he made a first studio recording consisting of 2 songs for a 45-rpm-single, which was released in 1989. Both songs did well in the Luxembourgish top 10. The band was called "Al’n Smacks", Smacks being Marc’s DJ name in the 80's and Al standing for Al Ginter, the percussionist with whom he started the project.
Shortly after Marc stopped making music, as he felt it to be incompatible with his private and professional life at that time. He got married, had children, got a job and thought: I’ll do it later! Well… later is NOW!
Over all those years, Marc never stopped composing and singing at home, but also never released any of his music and didn’t play it outside his living room. 25 years went by and he ended up being single again. He bought a computer, instruments, and a microphone and started re-arranging all his songs as demos. He began searching for musicians in order to play his music live… a difficult task! It took him a few years, hundreds of hours of work on his computer and many sleepless nights… until...
MARC FINALLY MANAGED TO FIND THE “RIGHT” GUYS. ALL OF THEM ARE YOUNG, HIGHLY TALENTED MUSICIANS.
MARC WELTER’S JOINT BUNCH WAS BORN.
During the second half of 2015, 2016 and 2017, Marc Welter’s JOINT BUNCH have been playing gigs in music-pubs, restaurants and bars throughout Luxembourg and participated at “ROCK UM KNUEDLER”, “FETE DE LA MUSIQUE DUDELANGE”, “NATIONAL CELEBRATION DAY” Luxembourg city as well as “MONDORFFFETE” festivals and decided in 2016 to start recording an Album with Marc’s compositions.
After doing some crowdfunding, the recordings started mid 2017.
The music can be called melodic “pop-rock” as Marc’s roots lay clearly in classical music and musicians he’s a big fan of like Billy Joel, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Supertramp, Phil Collins, Chicago, Toto, Sting, Steven Wilson, Rod Stewart, Simply Red and many more…
We’re writing early 2022 now and the album is “in da box” as they say. It took us 5 long years to get that steam boat into port! The album called “Living like a rainbow” is a quite unique project, made like recordings were made in the late 70’s, early 80’s, using REAL intruments all over, making up multiple layers and recording track by track in all kinds of places.
Over 30 talented musicians were involved and a BIG THANK YOU goes to every single one of them as well as to the amazing sound guys which are Georges Majerus @ Tritone studios Berdorf Luxembourg who is responsible for all the recordings, Tom Gatti @ Unison Studios Differdange Luxembourg who is responsible for all the fabulous mixes and Frederik Dejongh @ Jerboa Mastering Ghent Belgium who mastered the mastering. THANKS AGAIN!
The album is available on VINYL gatefold double album and CD HERE and IS on all streaming platforms SINCE SEPTEMBER 13TH.
The ALBUM release CONCERT HAPPENED on SEPTEMBER 13th at the ROCKHAL.
MARC WELTER’S JOINT BUNCH ARE :
LUCA SALES : PIANO, COMPOSITION AND ARRANGEMENTS
Luca has a Master in Jazz-Piano from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He plays in various jazz-blues- and rock-bands in Luxembourg and Belgium
CÉDRIC GILIS : GUITAR
Cédric has a master in Jazz-Guitar he obtained at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and he is director of the music school in Wiltz.
BEN WEIS : BASS
Ben has a Master in Jazz-Bass from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He plays in various jazz-blues- and rock-bands in Luxembourg and Belgium
NADJA PRANGE : KEYBOARDS AND VOCALS
Nadja went to the Conservatoire de Luxembourg to learn Piano and Oboe and is currently specializing in Hammond Organ. She plays and sings in various Pop-rock, Rock, Blues and Reggae bands in Luxembourg
PIT HUBERTY : DRUMS
Pit has a Master in Jazz-Drums from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. He plays drums and Guitar in various jazz-blues- and rock-bands in Luxembourg and Belgium
GEORGES MAJERUS : SAXOPHONE
Georges owns the Tritone recording studios in Berdorf http://www.audio.lu and has been the heart and soul of the band « The Soulcookies » for a decade. He has been touring with various Pop-Rock bands for the past 25 years.
BORBÁLA JANITSEK : CELLO
Borbála is a professional Cellist and Cello-teacher at the conservatoire de Luxembourg and plays in different orchestras and chamber music setups
MARC WELTER : VOCALS, PIANO AND COMPOSITION
The additional musicians involved in the recordings for “LIVING LIKE A RAINBOW” are :
Quentin Debecq : Oboe and English Horn
Anik Schwall : Solo Cello
Ernie Hammes : Trumpet and horn scores
Laurent Pierre : Saxophone and horn scores
Laurent Lemaire : Trombone
Steve Boehm : Horn
Eric Durrer : Percussion
Jeff Herr : Percussion and Drums
Patrick Wilhelm : Strings arrangements and scores, orchestra conducting
Estro Armonico : string orchestra (13 people)
Stephany Ortega : Soprano and backing vocals
Irina Holzinger : Main Vocals on Let us be silly
I hope I don’t forget anybody…. ;-)
The musicians on stage for the release concert at ROCKHAL on September 13th 2022 :
Piano & Vocals : Marc Welter
Piano and Rhodes : Luca Sales
Organ : Nadja Prange
Drums : Pit Huberty
Bass : Ben Weis
Percussion : Eric Durrer
Backing vocals : Stephany Ortega & Nadja Prange
Cello Solo : Beatriz Jimenez
Oboe and English horn Solo : Thomas Devez
French horn: Vicky Biver, Steve Boehm
Guitars : Cédric Gilis & Sven Sauber
Trumpet : Ernie Hammes
Saxophone : Laurent Pierre
Trombone : Laurent Lemaire
Orchestra : Estro Armonico - Orchestre de chambre
String Arrangement and Orchestra conducting : Patrick Wilhelm
Live Mix : Cai Hecker
Video Editing : Luc Henzig
Sound Mix and Mastering : Tom Gatti
MOC : Georges Majerus
Recorded at Rockhal with the support of Rocklab and the Grund Club Luxembourg
Intro "CMA sound short" by Florian Sundas
Past concerts and shows of the JOINT BUNCH and Joint Bunch Trio or Quatuor :
The International (Bar rue de Hollerich) : 11 june 2015
Grund Club Songwriters show (Brasserie Neimënster) : 26 June 2015
Kjubar (Bld Charles Marx) : 18 September 2015
Op der Bréck (Kopstal) : 2 October 2015
Café Little Woodstock (Ernzen) : 19 December 2015
LiquiD bar (Grund) : 9 January 2016
Come à la maison (rte d'Esch) : 25 February 2016
Différence Café (Viichten) : 23 April 2016
Rock Rendez-vous Radio ARA : 7 May 2016
Rock um Knuedler : 17 July 2016
Mondorfffete : 17 July 2016
La Boqueria (rue Erasme) : 22 July 2016
Brasserie K116 Esch : 26 Oct 2016
RTL Emissioun Greis Valerius : 26 April
ARA Radio Céline Agnes : 27 April
Shopping Center Belle Etoile : 29 April 2017 Flashmob with Irina Holzinger : “Let us be silly”
RTL TV : 29 April 2017 Flashmob am Owesjournal
Brasserie Restaurant Switch Strassen : 27 May 2017
Place d'Armes fête nationale : 23 June 2017
Restaurant L’Entracte-Switch : 6 July 2017
Lënsterstuff : 4 April 2018
Restaurant L’Entracte-Switch : 5 April 2018
Rock um Knuedler festival : 7 July 2018
Da Vinci Restaurant : 28 September 2018
Café Littéraire Le Bovary : 29 January 2019
Come a La Maison : 9 March 2019
Fête de musique Dudelange : 16 June 2019
Gouvy salle de concerts à Freyming Merlebach (F) : 10 February 2020
Culture Bar : 29 Sept 2020
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Rockhal Club : 13 SEPTEMBER 2022
